A pack-a-day smoker will lose approximately 2 teeth every 10 yrs.
People do not get sick from cold weather; it's from being indoors a lot more.
When you sneeze, all bodily functions stop even your heart!
Only seven ( 7 ) per cent of the population are lefties.
40 people are sent to the hospital for dog bites every minute.
Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until they are 2-6 years old.
The average person over fifty will have spent 5 years waiting in lines.
The toothbrush was invented in 1498.
40,000 Americans are injured by toilets each year.
Your feet are bigger in the afternoon than the rest of the day.
Most of us have eaten a spider in our sleep.
The REAL reason ostriches stick their head in the sand is to search for water.
The only 2 animals that can see behind itself without turning it's head are the rabbit and the parrot.
John Travolta turned down the starring roles in "An Officer and a Gentleman" and "Tootsie".
Michael Jackson owns the rights to the South Carolina State anthem.
. In most television commercials advertising milk, a mixture of white paint and a little thinner is used in place of the milk.
Prince Charles and Prince William NEVER travel on the same airplane just in case there is a crash.
The first Harley Davidson motorcycle built in 1903 used a tomato can for a carburetor.
Most hospitals make money by selling the umbilical cords cut from women who give birth. They are reused in vein transplant surgery.
Humphrey Bogart was related to Princess Diana. They were 7th cousins.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ballpoint pens every year.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
A snail can sleep for three years.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.
A shrimp's heart is in it's head.
It is physically impossible for a pig to look up into the sky.
A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.
23% of all photocopier faults worldwide are caused by people sitting on them and photocopying their butts.
Pam cooking spray will dry finger nail polish.
Budweiser beer conditions the hair.
7-Up keeps flowers fresh when used instead of water.
It is impossible for a person to be able to lick their own elbow.
A person has to lose 50% of their hair for people to notice that they are losing their hair.
Acne outbreaks can be caused by foods that are high in iodine, such as shellfish.
An anaconda, the largest snake in the world, can swallow a whole alligator.
In America, one out of every five American adults has lived with an alcoholic while growing up.
Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush. The best defense is to shut the lid before you flush.
The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.
Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.
Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or older.
The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.
The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache
A Boeing 747's wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first flight.
American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating 1 olive from each salad served in first-class.
Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the morning.
The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.
Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer. The Marlboro man in the advertisements died from emphysema.
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.
Marilyn Monroe had six toes.
All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being seen wearing them in public.
Walt Disney was afraid of mice.
Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name contains all the letters from the word "criminal." The second? William Jefferson
Clinton.
Turtles can breathe through their butts
More than 11,000 people are injured every year trying out new sexual positions.
Impotence is grounds for divorce in 24 states in the US.
Fresca, the soft drink, had problems when it was sold in Mexico. There, Fresca is slang for lesbian.
26% of all McDonald's employees in Ontario, Canada admit to putting some type of bodily fluid in McDonald's food.
The average American consumes close to 24 gallons of beer per year.
According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.
You are more likely to get attacked by a cow than a shark.
A blue whale's testicles are as large as a volkswagon beetle.
A Viking tribe once raided England because they had run out of beer.
Cows poop on average, 16 times a day.
If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee. (Hardly seems worth it)
Melting an ice cube in your mouth burns 3 calories.
If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb. (Now that's more like it)
Dr. Seuss pronounced his name so that it rhymed with rejoice.
Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
The ant can lift 50 times its own weight, can pull 30 times its own weight, and always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.
Polar bears are left-handed.
The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.
The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Starfish don't have brains.
The Bible is the most shoplifted book in America.
A giraffe and a mouse have the same number of vertebrae. 7. A giraffe's are spaced out farther than the mouse's.
If you bring a raccoon's head to the Henniker, New Hampshire town hall, you are entitled to receive $.10 from the town.
The hammer throw is illegal as a high school sport in all states except Rhode Island.
If you have three quarters, four dimes, and four pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.
The international telphone dialing code for Antarctica is 672.
Ohio is listed as the 17th state in the U.S., but technically it is number 47. Until August 7, 1953, Congress forgot to vote on a resolution to admit Ohio to the Union.
To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles.
The hundred billionth crayon made by Crayola was Perriwinkle Blue.
It was illegal to sell ET dolls in France because there is a law against selling dolls without human faces.
If you get married in Disneyland for $375, Goofey will be a guest. For him to stay for the honeymoon, however, will cost you $1,250.
Hair grows at a rate of .00000001 miles per hour, that's .000000022 kilometers per hour.
DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleic Acid. 75% of the O.J. Simpson jury did not know that.
Termites eat wood twice as fast when listening to Heavy Metal music
The longest English word that can be typed using only the top row of a typewriter is "typewriter."
Debra Winger was the voice of E.T.
Pearls melt in vinegar.
It takes 3,000 cows to supply the NFL with enough leather for a year's supply of footballs.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
The 3 most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs...but not downstairs.
Humans are the only primates that don't have pigment in the palms of their hands.
Ten percent of the Russian government's income comes from the sale of vodka.
The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." uses every letter in the alphabet. (Developed by Western Union to test communications)
Stewardesses' or reverberated are the longest words that are typed with only the left hand.
"I am" is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of yore when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
The airplane Buddy Holly died in was the "American Pie." (Thus the name of the Don McLean song.)
Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history. Spades - King David; Clubs - Alexander the Great; Hearts -Charlemagne; and
Diamonds - Julius Caesar.
111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321
Clans of long ago that wanted to get rid of their unwanted people without killing them used to burn their houses down - hence the expression "to get
fired."
Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the
last signature wasn't added until 5 years later.
Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt.
The longest recorded flight of a chicken is thirteen seconds.
The name Jeep came from the abbreviation used in the army for the "General Purpose" vehicle, G.P.
The highest point in Pennsylvania is lower than the lowest point in Colorado.
Nutmeg is extremely poisonous if injected intravenously.
The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League All-Star Game.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
The mask used by Michael Myers in the original "Halloween" was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted white.
If you put a raisin in a glass of champagne, it will keep floating to the top and sinking to the bottom.
Snails can sleep for 3 years without eating
Actor Tommy Lee Jones and vice-president Al Gore were freshman roommates at Harvard
The fingerprints of koala bears are virtually indistinguishable from those of humans, so much so that they could be confused at a crime scene.
Months that begin on a Sunday will always have a "Friday the 13th."
James Doohan, who plays Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott on Star Trek, is missing the entire middle finger of his right hand.
The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as airstrips in times of war
or other emergencies.
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
All of the clocks in the movie "Pulp Fiction" are stuck on 4:20.
The longest English word is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. It is a lung disease caused by breathing in too many volcanic particles. It has 45 letters.
Interesting but useless facts, I hope you enjoyed.
